This is what I'm dealing with on my own blog. Helping people sort out the real hip hop from these booty rappers who are still just trying to pay back their record company advance.

Ice-T, you're an actor now. Soulja Boy, yooooouuuuu just need to shut up.

I actually think Soulja Boy wins this by a landslide. The first 4 minutes are just him playing the dozens, but when he gets to his point in the second half he's dead on.

His generation has their own form of hip-hop and their own set of standards for it.. if that represents the destruction hip-hop then said destruction was completed long before he entered the game.

As he said quite correctly, Soulja Boy is only doing what he knows. He works hard at it and is very successful at it. And it's just arrogance on our part to assume he should conform to our generation's standards, seek our validation instead of that of his peers, when our generation seeks no relationship with him beyond telling him to "eat a dick" every so often..

I'd love to see his generation feel more of a connection with our hip-hop, but they don't OWE that to us. It would only happen if we built relationships with them beyond the same arrogant knee-jerk hate our elders gave to our music. Like Soulja Boy said, if we think they can do better we should be helping them. Or else just accept that they have their own thing that isn't meant for us, and move on. Cuz we're sounding way too much like our parents at this point.

^^^^

Is it wrong that I geeked out when I saw Jay Smooth from illdoctrine.com made a post?

As for the topic at hand, I feel out of love with hip-hop a while back sadly to say.

no, Michelle, i am a little verklempt too, lol. well said, and way to sum it up Jay.

***p.s. we miss you on youtube.

*I meant "fell"

I too believe Ice T gave Soulja Boy too much credit in stating that he single handely ruined hip-hop. As Jay Smooth said, Soulja Boy is merely participating in the slow destruction of hip-hop as some of us know it. They are both wasting time even going there with each other, Ice-T because he stooped to a lower level to place blame, and Soulja Boy for attempting to respond to that on an elder that has attributed so much to the very game he's trying to be apart of.

Indeed time has change, and so will music. And apparently that change is not for the better. There's money to be made in the music industry and we can't fault the young people for finding a niche to getting the money.

Ice T shouldn't be talking about crap rappers b/c he was one. I ride or die with my WC rap, but Ice was ALWAYS gar-baaaaage.

If the next generation standards is using the word hoe a 1000X and describe disgusting, deviant sexual acts towards women. Including rape. Then the world is going to sh*t

Ice is a joke.. and an old joke at that…

Of all the rappers out today why pick on Souja Boy. It reminds me when KRS-One went after the group PM Dawn. It doesn't make sense. It's a like a grown middle aged man picking a fight with a child. Why not go after Lil Wayne, Rick Ross, Young Jeezy? Are they saying anything relevant?